Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
We cannot put off living until we are ready.
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
Abasement degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
Law is born from despair of human nature.
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
The past will not tell us what we ought to do but... what we ought to avoid.
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
All life is the struggle the effort to be itself.
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent "here and now " without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us po...